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Aaron Long

Case #: 03PB2531
Police badge #: 19500
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- 03PB2531_Charges.pdf

Recommendation Termination
Decision Resignation
Length of process 5 months October 27, 2003 to March 18, 2004 Closed

Investigative Agency Not Specified

Charged with violating 2 rules on 2 counts

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Rule 1	1 count	Violation of any law or ordinance. Count 1 On or about 24 December 2002, at or near the Saks Fifth Avenue department store located at 700 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, Officer Long committed the offense of Retail Theft in that he transferred a price tag from one item of merchandise to another item of merchandise of greater value and attempted to purchase the item of greater value at less than the full retail value with the intention of depriving the merchant of the full retail value of said merchandise, thereby violating 720 ILCS 5/16A-3.
Rule 2	1 count	Any action or conduct which impedes the Department's efforts to achieve its policy and goals or brings discredit upon the Department. Count 1 On or about 24 December 2002, at or near the Saks Fifth Avenue department store located at 700 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, Officer Long committed the offense of Retail Theft in that he transferred a price tag from one item of merchandise to another item of merchandise of greater value and attempted to purchase the item of greater value at less than the full retail value with the intention of depriving the merchant of the full retail value of said merchandise, thereby violating 720 ILCS 5/16A-3.

Rule 1

1 count

Violation of any law or ordinance.

Rule 2

1 count

Any action or conduct which impedes the Department's efforts to achieve its policy and goals or brings discredit upon the Department.

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